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Aid reaches the hardy and hungry of Ukraine’s Lugansk (AFP)
Lugansk (Ukraine) (AFP) – After months of bombardments that left them short of water, power and basic supplies, many residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk breathed a sigh of relief at the arrival of desperately needed aid. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev slams Putin’s ‘Soviet goal’
KIEV has accused the Kremlin of seeking to ‘eliminate’ Ukraine while Moscow has charged Washington with orchestrating the entire crisis. …read more Source: THE...
Arseniy Yatsenyuk accuses Putin of plotting to conquer ‘all Ukraine’
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk believes Russia will not be content with the area now held by pro-Russian separatists in the east, and will seek next to form a land bridge from the Russian border to the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, then onward to the city of Odessa and the breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova, cutting...
Frequent violations of Ukraine ceasefire
A week into a fragile cease-fire between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, that country’s prime minister offered a pessimistic assessment of its chances of holding and said President Vladimir Putin of Russia intends eventually to conquer “all of Ukraine.” …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Fighting flares again in Ukraine
A CONVOY of trucks has crossed the Russian border to deliver aid to a Ukrainian city, as Kiev said it had repelled a rebel attack on an airport. …read more Source: THE...
Explosions, shattered nerves mark Ukraine truce (AFP)
Makiivka (Ukraine) (AFP) – Sleeping in cellars, listening nervously for the next artillery attack, and too poor even to flee: welcome to the reality of Ukraine’s ceasefire for residents of rebel-held Makiivka. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Ukraine trade blame as fighting tests truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Tensions over Ukraine festered on Saturday after Kiev accused the Kremlin of seeking to “eliminate” the pro-Western former Soviet nation while Moscow charged Washington with orchestrating the entire crisis. …read more Source: The West...
Barbs traded amid more violence
TENSIONS over Ukraine grew again after Kiev accused the Kremlin of seeking to “eliminate” the pro-Western former Soviet nation. …read more Source: THE...
Russia accuses US of Ukraine deceit
THE US is using the Ukraine crisis to cut economic ties between Russia and the EU, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. …read more Source:...
Truce brings no peace for Donetsk residents (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The artillery shell landed after nightfall, blowing out all the windows of a residential building in a district near the airport in Ukraine’s rebel-held city of Donetsk. …read more Source: The West...
